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Darkman Fanpage posted:what the gently caress. this place looks horrible. it looks like some kind of dystopia where you are provided excellent service but there is nothing to do The Grand Bushidopest Hotel 
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I want to see these guys charge a pillbox.
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Zzulu posted:is there even a single good japanese song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6rxGmvQPLU This was in some ML goon's av for awhile. I forget who.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:what the gently caress. this place looks horrible. it looks like some kind of dystopia where you are provided excellent service but there is nothing to do That is essentially the case. It does have what was at one point the largest indoor water park in the world, but of course that's one of the things that has been closed. It's a terrible destination resort, and the area where it's located is far too sparsely populated to support it without massive numbers of tourists that never materialized. Imagine building a multibillion dollar resort in like rural Idaho and you get the picture. The damage done to the Japanese economy by the 80s - early 90s bubble cannot be overstated. poo poo was hosed and they're still paying for it. quote:There could be no clearer example of the mismatch between the perceived need for relaxation and communion with the natural order, and the policies adopted in practice, than this 1987 [Resort] Law. Relaxation, along with freshness, greenness, and “my life”, was incidental to what happened. The expansionary thrust of Japanese capitalism shifted into a higher gear. The Resort Archipelago formula devised by PM Yasuhiro Nakasone created a huge new market and fed fierce expansionary pressures…In the Green Japan Plan Phase Two, published in 1988, resorts were described for the first time as “a new basic industry for Japan”. When Nakasone spoke of his ideal for Japan of “peace, freedom, and verdant greenery”, it should be understood that what he meant was…a land of chemicalized golf courses, expensive marinas, toll expressways that penetrated the deepest mountains, and resorts that multiplied the ideology and aesthetics of Disneyland, where culture meant consumption. And the fun thing is it's all playing out again in China on a far grander scale. There's another giant billion dollar hotel, the Windsor Toya,  up in Hokkaido at Lake Toya, the area surrounding which looks like         but apparently they're still doing alright for now, also on wealthy Chinese tourists.
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https://soundcloud.com/satellite-young/sets/break-break-tic-tac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4yc5fQ4lDA So 80s
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Jan 24, 2015 08:43
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ReidRansom posted:nah, i fully expect everyone to scroll right through I've read your post. All of it. Thanks.
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Jan 24, 2015 09:47
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even their graffiti is more colorful
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ReidRansom posted:nah, i fully expect everyone to scroll right through. I read it and I'm now hooked on his blog.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:If there is a queue for food in Osaka it is likely to be worth the wait. lol no its not.
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Jan 24, 2015 10:59
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Beef posted:Osaka is called Japan's kitchen for a reason. Because it served up food during the war. The food in Tokyo is much nicer.
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Fauxtool posted:why would someone fetishize hosed up teeth? Theirs is a rich culture envied by the world. because it implies that they're too young to have braces. The japanese fetishise elementary school age children to the level where maids in aki dress up like them in the school uniform.
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Jan 24, 2015 11:01
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who can take me to japan to steal these abandoned places
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Jan 24, 2015 11:04
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wait a couple more years and you can have them for free
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Jan 24, 2015 11:06
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as for the queuing - i saw a 2.5 hour queue for sushi in a place surrounded by other sushi restaurants. I asked the person I was with if the sushi was going to be 150 x nicer than the surrounding sushi and I was told that 'for the Japanese, we like to queue because every minute spent waiting makes the food more delicious' recently some people were queuing for some trashy gadget and a TV interviewer asked one of the girls why she was waiting and she said 'because I don't have anything else to do on a Saturday. It's exciting!' So there are your answers.
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Jan 24, 2015 11:07
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Looks like I could make a monopoly in japan by selling practically anything.
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Jan 24, 2015 11:11
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Jan 24, 2015 11:32
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Dizz posted:Looks like I could make a monopoly in japan by selling practically anything. as long as its novel go for it. I would like to have a ramen shop staffed by dogs. The only human employees are paid to wait in line
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Jan 24, 2015 11:33
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Let's take a bullet (Nozomi, the fastest one) from Tokyo all the way down to Hakata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqDG7t9O5c Actually quite relaxing to leave on in the background. Very pleasant ambient white noise.
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Jan 24, 2015 11:50
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didnt realise it was over 5 hours. geez. lol at people who think japan is small (including the japanese themselves!)
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Jan 24, 2015 11:54
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opus111 posted:didnt realise it was over 5 hours. geez. lol at people who think japan is small (including the japanese themselves!)
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Jan 24, 2015 11:59
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Some of those deserted places look like they'd be amazing to explore the natural surroundings, especially the Windsor Toya. Granted that would only appeal to an extremely small subset of travelers, so I can see why those places bleed money.
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opus111 posted:didnt realise it was over 5 hours. geez. lol at people who think japan is small (including the japanese themselves!) its five hours because they have to slow down every time they get near populated areas. I took the bullet train and it spent less than half of the time going top speed.
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fyodor posted:i already posted guitar wolf what more do you want Guitar Wolf rules There's always Polysics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhS0KozuxEo Melt Banana too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F0YuPjZ2a0 Benadryl Brownie fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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they left out the other member of the band 
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Accretionist posted:Have you taken a guided tour before? I was pretty happy with one I took of Ireland. They pretty much rolled us from buffet to buffet with events and sites in-between and it was total easy-mode. Having everything taken care of for you is incredibly relaxing. Guided tours are loving stupid as hell and a waste of money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAdC2GtvgRA EDIT: Oh someone already posted them. I saw them a couple times in the states and they are nice people. Demonachizer fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:I've read your post. All of it. Thanks. Grim Up North posted:I read it and I'm now hooked on his blog. Ah, cool. Yeah, he's a great writer.
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Jan 24, 2015 18:03
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Fauxtool posted:as long as its novel go for it. I would like to have a ramen shop staffed by dogs. The only human employees are paid to wait in line Along those lines, here is a katsu joint managed by a pig.
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Demonachizer posted:Guided tours are loving stupid as hell and a waste of money. I'm just going to assume you wasted a bunch of money on a bad one. I've been to Europe a handful of times, once with a guided tour, and every trip was great.
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GDP per capita, in inflation-adjusted US$, by year, perhaps?
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Jan 24, 2015 18:46
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It's the Nikkei 225, their stock index.
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simplefish posted:GDP per capita, in inflation-adjusted US$, by year, perhaps? lol
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Accretionist posted:It's the Nikkei 225, their stock index. The stock bubble stock was pretty hilarious since the Japanese argued there was no bubble in 1980s before the crash. Mainly because Japanese land was inherently more valuable compared to western countries and also how you couldn't directly compare values of Japanese countries vs. US stocks since the account was different.
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Jan 24, 2015 18:57
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Just walking down the street, look over the side of the bridge, human centipede park benches. Everywhere.
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Zzulu posted:is there even a single good japanese song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY
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Zzulu posted:is there even a single good japanese song
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Zzulu posted:is there even a single good japanese song Japan's non-idol music is shockingly good, but the Japanese music industry is dominated by 10,000s of otakus buying 10-1000s of copies of each CD.
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They also do great whiskey. FILEPHOTO: 
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